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Questions

True and False

1. The Duty-based (Deontology) ethical theory underestimates the importance of happiness and social utility.

2. According to rule utilitarianism :

An act, X, is morally permissible if the consequences of following the general rule (Y), of which act X is an instance, would bring about the greatest good for the greatest number.

3. During Phase 2 of evolution of computer technology, the proliferation of Internet- and Web-based technologies raised ethical and social concerns affecting free speech, anonymity and jurisdiction.

4. In Phase 2 of evolution of computer technology, privacy concerns arose because confidential information could easily be exchanged between networked databases.

5. Utilitarians argue that it is the consequences of the greatest number of individuals, or the majority, in a given society that deserve consideration in moral deliberation.

6. The professional and philosophical ethics perspectives both illustrate normative inquiries into applied ethics issues.

7. Immanuel Kant argued that morality must ultimately be grounded in the concept of duty or obligations that humans have to one another.

8. The Character-based ethical theory does not depend on homogeneous community standards for morality.